Past Events

Sophie Pitman
Nancy Nicholas Hall | 1300 Linden Dr. Madison, WI
March 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curator-gallery-talk-with-dr-sophie-pitman-tickets-791594679997?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR1NPU0_TKiXshg9zXBQ8dDB4RSo8sAlb7BDIj3cik-rXUvT8glykGLQvWc

Dr. Sophie Pitman (Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director) will take you on a tour of Remaking the Renaissance for a close look at Renaissance textiles and learn about how researchers are remaking and restoring …

Vilas Hall, Rm. 4070
March 2, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:40 pm
https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2024/spring/all-screenings-january-may-2024#3536

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA USA | 1935 | DCP | 92 min. Director: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx In the first and best of the Marx Bros. comedies after they landed at MGM, Groucho, Chico and Harpo invade …

Zach Kaiser and Gabi Schaffzin
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | 211 State St. Madison, WI
March 2, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.mmoca.org/events/ai-talk/?fbclid=IwAR0nVIxgJv-1Xs2kFxH7SHr_FCrpeJ3ZcQWbzdhmPhMSgpqZeotW59HJkRg

Blessed is the Machine is a self-aware computational system, alive with data yet critical of the very activities in which it is engaged. The project features an “AI avatar” which makes inferences about visitors’ emotions and …

Vilas Hall, Rm. 4070
March 1, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2024/spring/all-screenings-january-may-2024#3536

TO KILL A TIGER Canada | 2022 | DCP | 125 min. | Hindi with English subtitles Director: Nisha Pahuja To Kill a Tiger has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature Film. This harrowing, compelling, and compassionate movieThis …

Jamie Jones
University Club, Rm. 212
March 1, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://cvc.wisc.edu/programs/jamie-jones/

“How to See Energy: Visualizing Extraction, Labor, and Resistance” Jones’s book and talk are about the way that the concept of “energy” itself got bound together with fossil fuel extraction, settler colonialism, and extractive forms …

Vilas Hall, Rm. 4070
February 29, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2024/spring/all-screenings-january-may-2024#3536

THE SETTLERS Chile, Argentina | 2023 | DCP | 97 min. | Spanish with English subtitles Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle Cast: Alfredo Castro, Mark Stanley, Benjamin Westfall At the dawn of the 20th century in the remote corners of the Tierra del Fuego, three men—a …

Nadine M. Orenstein
Milwaukee Art Museum | 700 N. Art Museum Dr. Milwaukee, WI
February 29, 2024 @ 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
https://mam.org/events/event/lecture-rare-and-everywhere/

Rare and Everywhere: Prints by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries in 17th-Century Holland Learn about the robust print culture of the North Netherlands in the 1600s with Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the …

Chazen Museum of Art
February 29, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
https://glasslab.art.wisc.edu/glassmadison/public/169-reframing-glass-with-may-maylisa-cat/?fbclid=IwAR3Zhygani3V3tnIlJD6U5loBMXy3WDNv_fJ3GRz42KGd1il7Tv3XVaRFDk

How can we reframe glass? Can we view it through a different lens? Emcee’d by visiting artist and critic May Maylisa Cat, 16:9—Reframing Glass is a film festival screening a diverse collection of works from …

Jamie Jones
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L150
February 29, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
https://cvc.wisc.edu/programs/jamie-jones/

Extractive Nostalgia: Obsolescence and Skeuomorphism in Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was a flop when it was first published in 1851, but it finally became a hit in 1930, when Lakeside Press issued a new bestselling new …

Arts + Literature Laboratory | 111 S. Livingston St. #100, Madison, WI
February 28, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
https://artlitlab.org/events/body-language-a-collection-of-mfa-video-works

Mills Folly Microcinema presents Body Language: A Collection of MFA Video Works on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Admission $5.00, free for ALL members. A $1 fee will be added for single admission credit card charges, …